Rubber faced funny man and respected actor Jim Carrey has signed on to voice the role of Bugs Bunny in Gasper Noé's much anticipated Looney Tunes movie Silence of the Wabbits.

'I've never seen Jim so committed,' said his agent Peter Bond.Bond continued:He's eaten nothing but carrots for the last three months and, although he's so starved of protein his internal organs have began to cannibalize themselves, he can see clearly in the dark up to a distance of 6 kilometres.The Silence of The Wabbits screenplay was written by former crack addict turned stand up comedian Robert Rand and he promises a darker take on the loveable cartoon character.

'Bugs Bunny is essentially a sadist,' said an animated RandHe degrades, humiliates and inflicts pain on everyone he comes into contact with. The likes of Elmer Fudd, and Daffy Duck are victims of psychological warfare but rather than sympathize with them, we are manipulated into rooting for Bugs. We take pleasure in his cruelty and if that's not a damning indictment of the human condition, I don't know what is.Inspired by Thomas Harris' acclaimed novel Silence of Lambs, Bugs will star as the evil Dr Hannibal Lettuce who teams up with Agent Clarence Canary (Tweetie Pie) to catch renown serial killer Gruffalo Bill (Yosemite Sam).

'It's a brutal tale and Gasper has sworn that all of the graphic violence I wrote in the script will make it onto the screen,' said Rand.I thought he might cut the scene when Dr Lettuce roasts The Roadrunner and serves him up to a salivating Wile E. Coyote but that's definitely in. The animators showed us the clip last week and it got an incredible reaction. Sure a few people vomited and Carrey's voice coach is suing us for causing her permanent mental damage but we want it to effect people and that was only a rough cut, imagine the reaction when it's adapt to 3D!